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FORMER NAVY YARD

In 1997, Roger and Dinah Graffy were keen to move out of London to a better place to bring up their two small children. At that time, Dinah’s parents ran Bar Creek Yacht Station on the Truro River and so they knew the Fal Estuary well.

When they heard that Mylor Harbour – based at what was, in the 19th century, England’s most westerly (and smallest) naval dockyard – was for sale, they decided to buy it. They saw the hugely significant potential, not

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